The Governor and the NJ Legislature are considering legislation that will let shelters euthanize their animals before the 7 day waiting period has expired, letting them do it in 24 hours JUST TO SAVE MONEY!! This is insane and beyond cruel!

Give all pets an equal opportunity to find a loving home by overturning the law that stops rescue groups from holding adoption events and bringing dogs into Connecticut from other states.
Connecticut's Bill 5368 effectively stops rescue groups from

Coweta County Animal Control Facility in Newnan, Georgia, has a high-kill rate, provides inadequate care and repeatedly destroys animals with adoption applications in place. They routinely destroy kittens and puppies at 6 weeks of age.

Over 4 million innocent animals - abused, lost, stray, stolen, injured etc. - get euthanized each year due to lack of funds and space in shelters. Dogs and cats who just want a loving forever home are left lonely and fearful and then helplessly put to

All dogs should be given a fair chance at a good life. Even dogs with a "dangerous" background. Any animal can be made aggressive. If an owner treats any dog poorly, the dog could become aggressive. Pit Bulls, should be given the same chance.

Canada's worst roadside zoo, Guzoo Animal Farm in Three Hills, Alberta, is closing. It's great news that this unsafe facility is finally being shut down! While it's wonderful that Alberta's Sustainable Resource Development agency has revoked this

The Dublin SPCA has not enough space or money to rescue any more animals and put down the older (and maybe healthier)dogs that have been in its care for a long time. This could be happening anywhere else in the world as well.

The Humane Society of Harford County Animal Shelter kills most of the 4500 or more animals they take in each year (about 56% or more using their 2011 newsletter data). The HSHC claims they are a successful business or nonprofit but maintain about a 56

n March of 2011 the City of Long Beach, NY lost their contract with a local shelter to house animals picked up by Long Beach Animal Control. The animals no longer have anywhere to go. This means lost pets have no way of reuniting with their owners and

Assembly Member Micah Kellner has introduced the Companion Animal Access and Rescue Act (CAARA) to allow qualified rescue groups to recover animals that are scheduled to be destroyed at shelters. Current law only allows for individuals to adopt pets,

We have been fighting for about 1 year to get an assignment of a piece of land on which we can build an animal shelter. First it was blocked by local authorities, after this was changed and we have found an advocate, it now lies for months with the

There is an ordinance at the Shawnee, OK Animal Control that pit bulls and pit mixes will not be adopted out. They are held for 48 hours like all other animals, and if during that time the owner does not come to get them, they are automatically gassed

Dear Congress, I am doing this petition in defense of our animals that have been put into shelters across the United States. There is a problem with our shelters in our country, they are not allowing ample time for animals to be adopted out.

La Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid University) has been a home for, approximately, more than 100 feral cats for many years now. Not only all of these beautiful felines have been properly fed and looked after, but also neutered, spayed and rehomed.

Walks in the park, car rides, and games of fetch and Frisbee are all things that shelter dogs could have enjoyed if they had been given the chance. But most of them never get that chance. That's right, dogs across the country are dying because people